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I did a 30-day hot yoga challenge and I almost flooded Milwaukee with sweat

December 26, 2017

This all started with a conversation about my back. Often hunched over for my work as a writer, a bartender, and an all-around tall guy with bad posture, my spine gets angry with me. I was telling a tale of woe...

What the hell, here are some more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2017

Almost every December of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. This year was no dif...

Watch Dustin Diamond play Harvey Weinstein, get stabbed to death in Milwaukee music video

Matt Wild

December 26, 2017

And lo, on the day after Christmas, in the year of our lord 2017, Nashville-by-way-of-Milwaukee hard rock band TENLo released a video in which Dustin Diamond plays Harvey Weinstein and totally gets stabbed to d...

Remaking A Murderer: The rationale behind (and ramifications of) screening ‘My Friend Dahmer’ in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

December 22, 2017

Last night concluded the theatrical run for a drama about a troubled, misunderstood, and forgotten high school kid growing up in the Midwest in the late 1970s. The low-budget indie film has grossed less than $1...

Happy holidays, Milwaukee. Here are a bunch of restaurant openings and closings

Matt Wild

December 22, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Hey! Christmas break is kinda-sorta here! Why are you looking at the internet...

207 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Just Art’s Saloon

Caleb Westphal

December 22, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending quest here. "Was möchten Sie gerne?" the man behind the bar asked me as I sat down. "Ah, that's German, right?...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 16: Packers vs. Vikings

Nik Kovac

December 22, 2017

Ten weeks ago the Packers were 4-1, Aaron Rodgers was the odds-on MVP favorite, and the 3-2 Vikings had, in the two weeks prior, lost at home to the Detroit Lions, then barely survived the limping Chicago Bears...

Public Domain: The Fatty Acids perform “Toyland”

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 21, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

1983 Arcade Bar opens today. Here’s a look inside

Matt Wild

December 21, 2017

Unless your gaming diet has consisted of nothing but Call Of Duty for the past few years, you know that arcade games—particularly retro arcade games—are back. Across the country, "arcade bars" have tapped in, T...

“How you got a mall with no stores in it?” “Beer And Cheese” roasts Grand Avenue mall, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

December 21, 2017

As Milwaukee continues to redefine and reimagine itself in the awful, awful 21st century, it's comforting to know that for many people—say, Chicago-born and New York City-based comedians—our city will forever b...

Move over, ramen joints: 8,000 poke places are coming to the East Side

Matt Wild

December 21, 2017

Back in October, we got bored one night and thought, "Why don't we eat at three East Side ramen joints and write a thing about it?" The resulting thing, "I experienced the magic of the 'grown-up' East Side by e...

Hear another track from the forthcoming ‘Land By The Lake II’ hip-hop compilation

Tyler Maas

December 21, 2017

Throughout 2017, we've given you a few samples of Land By The Lake II, the forthcoming follow-up to a compilation that producer and engineer DSCRIBE curated to help “create a snapshot of Milwaukee's potent hip-...

7 hidden and underrated Milwaukee-area coffee shops

Catherine Jozwik

December 20, 2017

Nearly every caffeine junkie in the Milwaukee area has sipped a latte at a Colectivo, imbibed a dark roast at Stone Creek Coffee, and drank a Starbucks Frappuccino that could put them in a sugar coma. But Mi...

Turning Page’s Batman and Superman mural > ‘Batman v Superman’

Matt Wild

December 20, 2017

While the internet continues to argue about Star Wars: The Last Jedi (spoiler: it's okay!), let's take a moment to remember a recent blockbuster that everyone agreed sucked: 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Ju...

On The Record #118: End of year stuff (2017)

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 20, 2017

Twenty-seventeen was, well, it was a year. So let’s talk about it, or at least let’s talk about the things we actually liked about it. For this year's end-of-the-year recap, Milwaukee Record's Matt Wild, Tyler ...

Tearing myself apart at a midnight screening of ‘The Room’

Lauren Keene

December 19, 2017

I’ve always hated the concept of cultural “guilty pleasures.” I don’t understand why anyone should be ashamed of liking things just because society (or writers) say they’re “lame” or “bad.” I’m not at all asham...

Members of Carolina, Maritime, and The Championship resurface in Hello, Face

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

It isn't unnatural for a musician to take some time off between projects. Sometimes it takes somebody whose band just ended a little while to realign their creative focus and to get that itch to take the stage ...

Hark! Now hear more locally-made songs for the holidays

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2017

Almost every year, we round up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. Just when we think we've found the last of them, area musicia...

Remembering the life and comedy of Chris Farley

Nick Olig

December 18, 2017

On the anniversary of Chris Farley’s untimely death, it’s worthwhile to recall a formula someone once expressed for living a full day: laugh, cry, and think. Chris Farley used his time on this Earth to deliv...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Dec. 10-16)

Matt Wild

December 18, 2017

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a “renaissance” or a “reinvention.” Or maybe it’s a “reboot” or a “reimagining,” like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

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